Quit to go in-house and suddenly realised how much law-firm life was smothering issues in personal life

Just wondering if anyone else had experienced this.

Last 2 years I was working my 4th private practice gig and generally disliking it - I did not realise what it was doing to me mentally until my notice was handed in. My attitude was “yes it’s shit, welcome to life, sometimes it’s shit, get on with it” which actually served me pretty well.

I handed in my notice two months ago and instead of the peace and serenity which usually accompanies this period I suddenly had space and energy to think about things in my personal life that had realistically been neglected or ignored. The job is so all-consuming that, looking back, it was somewhat easy to just blanket all of that, shove it all into a corner to be dealt with another time or just straight up ignore it as a less important cloud to deal with.

Safe to say my mind has been racing since the notice haha. Of course I am grateful for this really and am actively taking steps to figure it all out. Makes me wonder if loads more people have had this experience or am I just a simpleton / fool who was not grabbing life by the horns and forcing direction as much as I should have.